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“Emotional Porn” is my new band name! Read more

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I hadn’t seen the piece on Daria until today, and now I’m looking forward to reading it. I maintain that, outside of A Different World, Jodie and Mack are the best representation of black teenagers I’ve ever seen on TV. Read more

I loved Mark’s article about his wedding to Alan. It was great and thought provoking. I miss Mark. Read more

Good God it’s so difficult to choose my favorites. “Fart-infused lump of raw meat” always made me giggle but I can’t argue with “dusty barrel of fermented peepee” because the word peepee is hilarious Read more

• An ambitious corn dog that escaped from the concession stand at a rural Alabama fairground, stole an unattended wig, hopped a freight train to Atlantic City and never looked back Read more

Hey, you have awesome taste in books - if you’re on Goodreads (and you feel like it) look me up. I’m...oh, look at fancy me, I’m the guy with the first review for Love in Excess (the competition isn’t stiff), my name is Alex. Read more

You should absolutely read The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. It is a recently Victorian novel that’s so much more by one of my very favorite authors. Read more

Ha, wow, Eliza Haywood. Deep cut! I read Love in Excess just this year. Good stuff. Read more

Have you ever read Orhan Pamuk? Specifically: My Name is Red and Snow. Read more

I checked Luisa Valenzuela out and she’s totally in line with my interests. Thanks for the recommendation! Read more

Would you like to get married? My husband would understand. Read more

Dickens’ Bleak House is amazing. AMAZING. You realize all stories are the same story. And I’ll never hear or read “Tom-all-alone’s” again without a shiver. For cheerier fare, The Pickwick Papers are fun fun fun, with stories and morals and chases and weddings and courtings and misunderstandings... Read more

GAHHH!!! WRITTEN ON THE BODY!! I was assigned that book for a freshman English class (at a military college, none the less) and absolutely adored it! Read more

I feel like one has to be in a very good place of mind to be able to handle Winterson, in general. I absolutely love her, but some of her work can just absolutely destroy me. Read more

Woman in White is great! Read more

Oh my god, you’re the best! Hahaha, I feel like I should have mentioned I’m an English major, so I’ve read a good chunk of that list, and I’m at least familiar with most of them. Read more

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For non-English classics (that are within the 20th century) I recommend reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado, Jose Saramago. I recommend German lit, too, like Kafka. Perfume by Patrick Susskind is a great contemporary German novel set in a pre-modern era. Read more